Specialist Investigator: Financial Crime

6 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together one story at a time.
- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary

To provide advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist anti-money laundering expertise.

**Job Description**:
A key requirement of the role is to build out a robust, firm-wide capability to enable a data driven approach to managing risk and which also drives a top class analytics and intelligence capability to enhance and strengthen the firm's management of financial crime and terrorist financing.

The key specific accountabilities of this role would be the following:
- Being actively involved in delivering a robust FIU capability which meets the requirements and expectations of all regulatory stakeholders.- Being actively involved in the development of intelligence products that are both strategic and operational in nature.-
- Taking the outcomes from intelligence led investigations and ensuring these are embedded in the business.- Working closely with analytics in the development of a data acquisition strategy and deployment of supporting toolsets.- Actively seek to enhance the profile of the FCIU by adding value to business in regular engagements.

Accountability Operational Support and Coordination- Manage and perform detailed investigations from various sources with a view to put context to data, trends and indicators.- Assess all data, trends and indicators and escalate all issues of a significant nature to the appropriate stakeholders on a timely basis through interactions and submission of reports (content presentation, accuracy, quality and completeness are important).- Be able to identify relevant legal-, reputational-, concentration-, regulatory and credit-risks and to verbalise same in an appropriate manner to enable the relevant business unit to manage its client-relationships accordingly.- Capture appropriate, accurate and reliable data on the relevant case management system to allow effective MI being communicated.- Evaluate and add value to information received from internal
- and external-stakeholders with the objective of turning the information into intelligence, thereby enhancing the profile of the FCIU and improving the unit’s value proposition.- Make meaningful and appropriate recommendations in any communications/reports/interactions becoming a relevant trusted advisor and business enabler.

Accountability: Monitoring- Utilise the rich sources of Customer, Transactional and Geospatial data to develop flexible rule based profiling models to monitor and detect on-going Financial Crime red flags.- Be actively involved in the delivery of the next generation of analytics based monitoring capabilities through the development of statistical based detection models.- Monitor media publications to detect customers that are linked to adverse media and would pose a legal-, reputational-, concentration-, regulatory or a credit-risk to the firm.

Accountability: Stakeholder Management- Be actively involved in engagement with key stakeholders to ensure effective partnership both internally and externally.- Provide guidance to the Business as a consequence of outcomes and outputs from intelligence driven activity.- Lead by example, appreciates their role in providing guidance and education and training to others.- Able to clearly navigate and articulate the importance of the FC Control Environment to the business that is as a consequence of intelligence activity, whether internally or externally driven.- Able to educate colleagues and skillfully provide simple explanations, real world case studies.- Able to effectively present/ facilitate FC training if required.- Embraces change and sponsors improvements as a consequence of the outputs of intelligence led or driven activity.- Technology & Change - Work closely with Technology & Change functions to build an industry leading analytics capability.

Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Law, Military Science and Security (required)
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_

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